Amazon is pushing its expansion into China through a somewhat unexpected channel. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...
The Chinese government gave its major e-commerce players the green light they needed to help grow their international e-commerce reach as Li Keqiang, the Premier of China’s State Council, provided support toward Internet companies like Alibaba and JD.com, Reuters reported. Get the Full Story Complete...
The future of BBVA won’t just be more technology in banking. “BBVA will be a software company in the future,” the Spanish bank’s chairman, Francisco Gonzalez, told an audience on Wednesday (March 4) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Mobile shopping in China jumped 239 percent in 2014, more than tripling the value of mobile purchases in 2013 — and mobile will overtake other forms of Chinese online shopping by the end of next year, Internet Retailer reported. Get the Full Story Complete the...
“If we were building a financial system from scratch today, we’d do it on a digital platform,” Bill Gates once said in an address on behalf of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
U.S. banks and their customers remained the top targets for financial malware in 2014, even as the infection rate for trojan-style attack software was cut in half, according to a new report from Symantec. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Any merchant has the ability to compete when it comes to selling cross-border. But competing to win, says Rick Barbari, Group VP at Digital River, is a whole different ball game. Winning at cross-border commerce not only requires a merchant to know and enable preferred...
Alibaba’s executive team has repeatedly said it’s taken strict measures to combat fraudulent sellers on its marketplaces, but there’s another force in China’s e-commerce market that’s making it harder to regulate: brushing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
MasterCard solidified its commitment to the cross-global payments market on Tuesday (March 3) when it released a press release to announce its partnership with Zimbabwe’s Steward Bank. The move aims to bring remittance services to more than 1.5 million account holders — allowing its customers to...
